{"product_id":"a-political-biography-of-the-saskia-wieringa-9781350422841","title":"A Political Biography of the Indonesian Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHere, the history of the Indonesian LBT movement is charted, from invisibility, to visibility and now as it moves again into hiding.\u003c\/b\u003e In the early 1980s, during the oppressive military dictatorship called the New Order in Indonesia, the first organizations of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans persons were established. They were short-lived, but prepared the ground for a more comprehensive LBT rights movement after the democratic opening of society in 1998. From 2000 to 2015 the visibility of the movement grew, until a vicious state-sponsored backlash set in, driven by majoritarian, fundamentalist Islamist groups. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSaskia Wieringa tracks the movement's progress and explores the persistence of the butch\/femme model of relationships; the proliferations of identities; family violence and conversion therapy; religion; and the anti-LGBT campaign. In its insistence on the local dynamics of this movement, the book aims to debunk the idea that homosexuality is a Western import. Chapters deal with the many religious and secular phenomena that are linked with gender diversity and same-sex relations traditionally, and the erasure of many of these traditions is explained using the concept of postcolonial amnesia. \u003ci\u003eA Political Biography of the Indonesian Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Movement\u003c\/i\u003e is also a contribution to the growing literature on decolonization studies, pointing out that its dynamics, its historical course and its present condition, different as they are from the dominant Western view on a global LGBT movement, needs to be considered as valuable as accounts of Western LGBT histories are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Saskia Wieringa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350422843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350422841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.65d","brand":"Saskia Wieringa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47930772848895,"sku":"9781350422841","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c8f16f4-d36c-485f-b9ad-5e173496e8f7.jpg?v=1766344168","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-political-biography-of-the-saskia-wieringa-9781350422841","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}